Portfolio
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Indianapolis, INIndiana Academy of Science
The Indiana Academy of Science requested the services of Caktus to improve its online presence. We teamed up with Raleigh-based designer Jen Rhoton to professionally redesign the site and provide IAS with a clean and simple look. The new database-driven site allows IAS to easily manage publication listings, committee and section members, grant applications, and keep track of its member list.
Learn more about Indiana Academy of Science
Technology:- Django,
- JQuery,
- PostgreSQL
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Chapel Hill, NCSustainable Furnishings Council
The Sustainable Furnishings Council is a non-profit balanced coalition of industry players created to promote sustainable practices among manufacturers, retailers, and consumers alike with a public tagging program to identify good choices.
Learn more about Sustainable Furnishings Council
Technology:- CiviCRM,
- Drupal,
- MySQL
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Raleigh, NCIncredible Tree
Incredible Tree allows users to capture and organize hierarchical thinking for editing, displaying, and printing on the web. ITree can be used as a collaboration tool for people to realize ideas together or for individuals to flesh out their own structured plans. These plans can be visualized through graphs, outlines, print, and a custom indentation view.
Learn more about Incredible Tree
Technology:- Django,
- PostgreSQL,
- Prototype,
- script.aculo.us
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Chapel Hill, NCClapping Dog
Teaming up with local designer Jennifer Pittman, Caktus developed a easily maintainable website for Clapping Dog. Clapping Dog offers services to open the imagination, supporting making meaning and developing understanding through education, the arts, and our common diversity. They also offer teacher training as well as support to musical productions.
Technology:- Drupal
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Chapel Hill, NCminibooks
minibooks is a free and open source bookkeeping package for web developers and other small tech agencies. It’s packaged with simple Customer Relationship Management (CRM), double entry accounting, simple ledger, PDF generation (for invoicing, receipts, etc) with LaTeX, and more. Check it out!
Technology:- Django,
- Mootools,
- PostgreSQL
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Raleigh, NCBlue Ridge Patient Photo Database
Blue Ridge Dermatology Associates, P.A. (BRDA) requested development of a custom patient photo storage database. The database allows staff members to quickly and efficiently add new photos from patient visits and send the photos to external physicians.
Learn more about Blue Ridge Patient Photo Database
Technology:- Django,
- Mootools,
- PostgreSQL
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Chapel Hill, NCOne Good Chair
In recent years, the furniture industry has become more environmentally intelligent by reconsidering its production methods and material content, but the basic shape of things hasn’t changed much. Can we be as smart about the way things look and feel as we are about how they’re made?
Learn more about One Good Chair
Technology:- Django,
- PostgreSQL
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Chicago, ILChicago Hopes
Chicago HOPES (Heightening Opportunity and Potential for Educational Success) is an initiative of the Chicago Public Schools Homeless Education Program that empowers homeless students to succeed academically. With the goal of sustainability, we collaborate with schools, shelters, and communities to establish shelter-based, after-school tutoring and cultural enrichment opportunities. This educational support, provided by committed and caring volunteers, will help students to break the cycle of homelessness that threatens their futures and communities.
Learn more about Chicago Hopes
Technology:- Drupal
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Chapel Hill, NCDiLorenzo Studios
Award winning documentary producer brings her skills to the business world. DiLorenzo Studios specializes in producing a broad range of media from podcast to broadcast, commissioned by businesses, non-profits, community organizations and individual families.
Learn more about DiLorenzo Studios
Technology:- Django,
- FlowPlayer,
- Mootools,
- PostgreSQL
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Ithaca, NYNeighborWorks Event Management Website
NeighborWorks is a national non-profit that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and strengthen their communities. Caktus updated and enhanced the Event Management section of the website. Among the changes made, Caktus added database models, created pages, optimized workflow, added features and fixed numerous bugs.
Learn more about NeighborWorks Event Management Website
Technology:- MySQL,
- PHP
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Richmond, INEarlham Energy Awareness Project (EEAP)
The Earlham Energy Awareness Project is an energy-monitoring program that allows the College Administration to keep track of the energy usage in college owned student residences. Students are then made aware of the ways in which their life-style choices can save resources. Dorms and other residences are encouraged to compete with one another to determine who can save the most energy and the winners are rewarded for their efforts.
Learn more about Earlham Energy Awareness Project (EEAP)
Technology:- PostgreSQL,
- Ruby on Rails
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Richmond, INscrAPI
While there’s a lot of raw data out there on the Internet, some of it can be hard to visualize. We wanted to change that. scrAPI is a web application for retrieving (“scraping”) data from web sites across the net and displaying it in an easily accessible form. The web interface takes the data and displays it on an easy to use and interactive Google Map. This project was developed as part of a software engineering class in the spring…
Technology:- Java
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Richmond, INWebDB
WebDB is an interface to Earlham’s backend database where students can view courses offered and build their schedule.
Technology:- PHP
